The birth of Bangladesh
The History Hour
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The Bard of Bengal
Rabindranath tagor was one of the first non europeans to win a noble prize for literature. The independence movement began as a fight for the bengali language. i looked back through the bibse archives to hear the voices of the people who knew him, and the voice of the man himself. Alamara monal abol singing in bengali a song that he'd written and composed himself.
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